Alberta\u2019s push to sell its latest budget began in Calgary Friday, where the province announced 14 new school projects aimed at easing classroom crowding across the city.<\/p>\n
The announcement was made at St. Francis High School, where Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides and Finance Minister Nate Horner were joined by leaders from both the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) and the Calgary Catholic School District (CCSD).<\/p>\n
Nicolaides said the new projects reflect the priorities submitted by local school boards and respond directly to Calgary\u2019s rapid population growth. The province is projecting a 1.6 per cent increase in student enrollment this fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 14 projects we\u2019ve just announced are brand\u2011new projects that are not currently on our capital plan, but as of today will be added to the plan,\u201d Nicolaides said. \u201cThat brings the total number of school projects underway across the province to 161.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 14 projects include nine new CBE schools, three for the Catholic district, one francophone school, and an expansion at Alberta Classical Academy\u2019s Currie campus. When completed, the new schools are expected to serve more than 12,000 students.<\/p>\n
The CBE, which says 70 per cent of its schools are already over capacity, with high schools averaging 107 per cent utilization, called the additions urgently needed. <\/p>\n
These projects come on top of 31 previously announced builds, bringing Calgary\u2019s total number of active school projects to 45.<\/p>\n
The newly announced project include:<\/p>\n
Calgary Board of Education<\/p>\n
Joane Cardinal\u2011Schubert High School addition \u2014 planning<\/p>\n
New elementary school in Walden \u2014 design<\/p>\n
New elementary in Carrington \u2014 planning<\/p>\n
New elementary in Cityscape \u2014 planning<\/p>\n
New elementary in Kincora\/Sage Hill \u2014 planning<\/p>\n
New elementary in Mahogany \u2014 planning<\/p>\n
New K\u20139 school in Country Hills \u2014 planning<\/p>\n
New middle school in Legacy \u2014 planning<\/p>\n
Replacement school on former Kensington School site \u2014 planning<\/p>\n
Calgary Catholic School District<\/p>\n
New elementary\/junior high in Cityscape \u2014 design<\/p>\n
New elementary\/junior high in Mahogany \u2014 planning<\/p>\n
New high school in Ambleton \u2014 planning<\/p>\n
Conseil scolaire FrancoSud<\/p>\n
New Grade 7\u20139 public school \u2014 planning<\/p>\n
Alberta Classical Academy<\/p>\n
Currie Campus expansion \u2014 planning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alberta\u2019s push to sell its latest budget began in Calgary Friday, where the province announced 14 new school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-504844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}